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Chicago examiner vol vi no 156 a m saturday june 20 1908 16 pages price one cent neuvered by carrier 30 cents per monti cooley would quit but resignation is re turned i revelation comes as ida m tarbell prepares to muck rake school board busse's hand in fight superintendent forced out after refusing to trans fer teachers chicago's board of education is to be muck-raked by ida m tarbell coincident with this news comes the hardly less startling declaration from president otto c bchneidcr of the board of education that edwin g cooiey re signed as superintendent of chicago's pub lic schools before leaving for europe two months ago unless mr cooiey has changed his mind since his departure the resignation still holds good though it has not been accepted and as a consequence the Chicago public schools are without an official head it is said that the lesigna tlon was practically forced from cooiey by mayor busse's secretary b j mul aney in a stormy interview at which the former refused to sign . a big batch of transfers for teachers the muck-raking by miss tarbell is to be done with a special view to uncovering the inside works of the administrative and executive system which scbool trustee guerln and other critics of the schneider cool y regime declare has been turned into a monster poliitical machine for the oppression of teach ers and the denial to the pupils of their right to be free from overcrowding and from other unhealthy conditions in class rooms the material for the muck raking articles is now being gathered in Chicago by miss tarbell she has held confereuces with miss margaret haley and miss catherine goggin of the teachers federation and is to have further conferences with them from the moment of her arrival here miss tarbell has been busily at work with her little old rake as she calls her note book peneil her presence had been kept a secret but it was revealed esterday admits miss tarbell is here i will admit that miss tarbell is here that i have met her and that she held a three-hours conference to-day with a rep resentative of the Chicago teachers said miss haley she is occupied i under stand in making an investigation of the fearful and mysterious works of the system or political machine or whatever it should be called by which the rank and hie of | chicago's school teachers are denied ad 1 vancemeut to higher pay and more freedom of professional initiative and by which also the school children of Chicago are de prived of their natural rights the admission by mr schneider list night that mr cooiey had tendered his resignation at last confirms the persistent rumor that mr cooiey contemplates a severance of his connection with the public schools of which he has been superintend it for the last eight years whether mr cooiey will return to chi cago as head of the public schools is the droblem in the case his re-election mon day night at a stormy meeting of rhe school board may have changed the s't aation cooiey and mayor busse are said have reached the parting stage forced to release secret it was in reply to insistent demands for i definite statement as to the reported in ______ of cooiey to quit that president schneider released his secret is it true that mr cooiey will resign v-icii he gets back to Chicago was asked with desperate vehemence president schneider replied let me tell you a secret mr cooiey did resign just before he went away but i did not accept the resignation i sent it back to him i understood that the reason he resigned was because he was not sure he would recover his health suf ficiently to enable him to resume his da lies has he withdrawn the resignation do you expect him back as school superintend ent i hope so xow that's all i will say according to the story of the inside his tory of the resignation mr cooiey has known for some time that he is persona non grata with the ruliug powers at the city hall soon before the date when he requested sick leave mr cooiey so the story runs was visited in his office by a i i busse emissary said to be none other than i | ihe mayor's private secretary bernard j â– mulluney a small ikt of requests for â– transfers-just forty of them was pre â– seated by mullaney for the o k of the isj school superintendent mr cooiey became h very angry and let it be known that he â– was he resented the attempt to interfere Â£.[ with the czar-like sway that he had been m accustomed to exercise over the destiuies the teachers jbbi ve a wordy battle â– ''-' tr.ese papers l am instructed to your signature said mullaney got a heated refusal ten minutes the atmosphere had a m|j then the enraged emissary e resignation mr cooiey '' nfterno.m b - the effect on the schools if bs__bb 11,si ltl0 " should become ef l ln trustee raymond robins â– i be the rery best thing that h chaos not harmony has rc b â€” long period of or mis plunges to death in view of thousands of merry makers - patrick murphy overcome by heat on royal gorge 50 foot scaffold at river view â– weather fatal to six : list of prostrations for day is large little relief promised i overcome by the heat while at work on a platform fifty feet from the ground : patrick murphy an oiler olunged to his i death in full view of thousands of amuse ment seekers at riverview park last night while the park was crowded and while gay parties were being whirled over the i royal gorge railway murphy who i had ascended the platform to oil some i pulleys was seen to throw bis hands to i his head and reel i the man grabbed wildly at the scaffold and the next instant plunged forward the body described a somersault in the air struck against one part of the struc ture bounded off and landed head fore most on the ground murphy's neck was broken in the fall he was dead when picked up the plunge of the unfortunate workman 1 caused no outcry there was no excite i ment the laughter went on the royal gorge continued lo haul the laughing i crowds up the inclines and down the i dips murphy's body was picked up by some park attendants had complained of heat the man who was about thirty five years old had been complaining of a head ache and of the heat all day the death of murphy is the second that ' has taken place ou the royal gorge ' road at riverview within a week last sunday august kuschask either leaped or fell from one of the cars going at a high rate of speed and was instantly killed murphy was a member of tire hod car riers uuiou his place of business is not known the body was removed to tehach's undertaking rooms 47 roscoe boulevard tlie heat in Chicago yesterday was re sponsible for a number of deaths and a larger number of prostrations the list is as follows the dead muivjpk patkick employed at riv erview park address unknown ; over come by heat and fell from scaffold of soyal gorge railway fifty feet killed instantly p ox mrs mary sisrty-si years old 42 morgan place died of apoplexy superinduced hy heat ! yotj-tg w h seventy years old one of the oldest telegraphers in the united states overcome in the coli seum during the session of the na tional convention on thursday died at the home of his son 995 flournoy street tadokski krs dorothy seventy eight years old 950 north lincoln street found dead in bed heart dis ease aggravated hy the heat ea3vey baby one month old 1439 west sixty-first street summer com plaint mazniak ig-hatz forty-one years old 8836 escanaba avenue overcome by heat thursday died at south chi cago hospital yesterday the prostrated peterson irene fifteen years old 443 west huron street overcome on street county hospital condition serious bttkos nellie eighteen years old employed by swift & company at the stock yards overcome on street taken home condition not serious olson julia thirteen years old 14d west huron street overcome on street taken home condition not serious hammatt eugene seventy four veais old van buren and sherman streets overcome on street emergency hospital condition serious ' o'connor james twenty-one years old ' 1515 diverse boulevard overcome on street st bernard's hospital condition i not serious germain george forty-five veurs old ' ml jackson boulevard overcome in kit 1 chen of john l thompson restaurant county hospital condition serious van zen'tz ella thirty four years old ticket seller on the elevated at itnudolp i street and fifth avenue overcome at < work taken to her home 873 north ilai , sted street condition not seriousv no immediate relief from the hot wave ( is promised by the weather man the < mercury in Chicago to-day may go even i higher than yesterday when at 3 o'clock 88 degrees was recorded a higli west ' wind that reached a velocity of forty ' two miles an hour at noon was the onlv 1 thin that tempered the heat keeping the humidity down to normal go easy jim c & n.w rail road accused in court of mild bribery arguments for new trial of big condemnation suits are begun accusations of a mild species of bribery against the Chicago & north western railroad company and direct charges that the company's lawyers had tried to influence the verdict of the jury iu the condemnation suit recently tried were made by the attorneys for some of the property owners in judge chytraus court yesterday the motion for a new trial in the case which involved 1,000.000 worth of property on the site of the pro posed new if_o,ooo.oc-i statiou for the com pany was being heard the property owners who are asking for a new trial base their demands on the grounds that they were awarded unfair prices for their holdings i ask wi.liam kies to explain how it was that he urged that the railway com pany be allowed to pay the jurors iu the case 3 a day in addition to their regular fee of 2 a day said attorney w j doyle for the property owners i demand an explanation why this 3 per day additional was allowed the jurors i say in open court that it was a species of bribery a mild species perhaps but a species of bribery nevertheless i want an explana tion the original trial lasted six months the aggregate amount of awards made by the jury was over 750,000 since the trial of the suit president hughitt of the railway company has come to the couclusiou that some of the awards were not adequate he is now engaged in settling anew with some of the property holders regardless of the court award a number ot settle ments at prices satisfactory to the owners lime been made others are in course of settlement yesterday's proceedings were brought by property owners who have not been approached by hughitt michael hiinegaii was the foreman of the jury he is the man who is charged with having used his influence to secure favor able awards for the company attorney j j thompson also represent ing property holders made direct accusa tions against the road's lawyers the Chicago & northwestern employed an army of detectives to investigate each venireman called and when he was called to the jury box they knew whether he was the one they wanted said thompson the defendants did not know this ami when ilanegan answered the questions of the defendants attorneys satisfactorily he was accepted hanegan dominated the jury tn the in terests of tlie railroad he told certain of ihe jurors that they would get good obs if they decided in favor of the corporation and then again when the jurors were granted the extra pay t understand thev were not to be told it was given - them by the railroad this your honor unintention ally told theiu ' woman wins will contest from her father charges parent as executor wasted estate bequeathed by her mother still fighting to recover an estate which she says her father frittered away ille gally in his capacity as executor mrs clare irene laing malcolm of ana arbor mich obtained a judgment here yesterday against herbert a streeter of kvanston judge piuckney instructed the jury o return a verdict lu favor of mrs malcolm streeter is seventy-four years old his sole connection with the affair consisted of his having been one of the bondsmen for colonel cuthbert w laing the plaintiff father colouel laing is now in toledo unto and it was stated in court that he had refused to come to Chicago to testily in streeter's behalf daughter had him arrested the fact is colonel laing has a whole some respect for his warlike daughter three years ago she had hltu arrested at his office in uearborn street on a cuarge of taking 4y,tvi from her the case was settled out of court mrs malcolm was born in 1870 and her mother who was very wealthy died when the girl was eighteen uioutus old alia laing had entered into an ante-nuptial agreement with the colonel in which he waived all claim to her estate she left it all to her daughter but the colonel was appointed executor among the assets bequeathed to the in fant were a three-eignths interest in the trade building whicu colouel laing sold tor fom.ooo in 18bs and the property at j.l-2'j washington street which he sold lu isiil to marshall field & co for their annex building the price being 01,000 before he could take charge of this moiie colonel laing had to give a bond as executor streeter with w j and j h mcneill assumed the responsibility previously a bond on the real estate had been given by vincent ('. price o the price kakiug powder company and cornier united states senator william k mason a year ago mrs malcolm recovered a judgment of 100,000 against price leave streeter to fight alone by the time mrs malcolm had collected that and started cut to hunt for the other three bondsu.cn the mcneills had left the jurisdiction of the court and streeter was left to light the battle alone as in the previous case against pn:e u was brought out that mrs malcolm at the time of attaining her majority id again prior to her marriage had signed a release forgiving her father for what ever mismanagement there had been in her estate but the answer was that the re leases had been obtained under duress also that colonel laing had violated toe law when he useu his daughter's money to speculate in the kllzsimtnon subdivision real estate deal without obtaining the pel-mission of the court the court held that under the law his bondsmen were responsible for his actions and that they must return to the daughr-.-r 1 whatever her father took away from her * i h gompers says unions will fight g o p labor plank plan appeal to democrats president a f of l declares sherman act was intended to apply only to property rights 6(1 want to say to you that we i the american federation of * labor are not satisfied with the anti-injunction plank in the re publican platform this statement was made last night by samuel gompers president of the american federation of labor to a reporter of the examiner at the kaiser ! hof hotel i give you my views in full in an editorial 1 have written for the july number of the american federationist there can be no mistake as to my views if you will read that labor he continued cannot be satisfied with any makeshift half way promises that mean nothing what i say in that editorial are my views and the views of labor organiza tions as they are enunciated by me as to this republican platform i be lieve that all organized labor agrees with these views and as i have made them they will stand as coming from me is that plain enough i think it is and ought to satisfy every one as to my position and that of our organiza tion on the republican anti-injunction planlt want anti-trust law amended the american federationist is the of ficial organ of the american federation of labor the editorial statement is as follows under the decision of the united states supreme court the labor organiza tions of the country are now regarded as trusts combinations and conspiracies in restraint of trade they _ are subject to i the provisions of the sherman anti-trust i law a law never intended to apply to or igantzations of men and women who have nothing to sell hut their power to labor and yet these voluntary associations and their members may be subject to suits in volving threefold damages fines to , the sum of o,000 or imprisonment for one year or both such fine and imprisonment ' at the discretion of the court ] labor asked congress for an amend ment to the auti trust law that shall ac ' cord the toilers the right to organize to , unitedly protect their personal freedom i the party in power responsible for legisla tion or its failure point-blank refused to 1 grant the relief desired or any relief at â– all the abuse of the beneficent writ of in junction was presented dot only to past ' congresses but to the consideration of the 1 one just adjourned labor did not and , does not ask for special privileges nor as some mischievously and untruthfully assert does it ask or expect to become a privileged class of wrougdoers in labor's bill on injunctions we would re-establish the fundamental principles upon which the equity power of the courts is based intended to affect property rights the writ of injunction was intended to be exercised for the protection of property rights and property rights only it was never intended to either protect or curtail personal rights personal freedom labor insists and has the right to de mand that workmen shall have the full quarautee of equality before the law to be regarded and treated as every other citizen of our common country and to have equally the guarantees of constitutional statutory and natural rights applied to all not one process of law to one class of citizeus and another wholly unwarrant able process to workmeu and not even to workmen unless they are engaged in a dis pute with their employers the majority leader on the floor of the house mr payne of new york on may 1 11108 declared " we are doing this business we are leg islating we are responsible for what we do and we are responsible for what we do not do and we propose to assume the re sponsibility for it from beginning to end representative dalzell of pennsylvania a member of the committee on rules an other republican leader ou april 3 iu.b said in the house " i think we will be able to demonstrate from this time out not only that the minor ity shall not enact legislation but that the legislation of the majority shall be such as the majority desires to pass iu its own way and in its ovvu time labor's just demands spurned the authorized representatives of the wage-earners of the country presented a protest to congress against the wrongs which they have to endure asking some of naming of sherman a chance shot i boomed at Chicago merely to t advertise him as possible h successor of hughes stranger to delegates Â£ they obediently nominate him . â–º for vice presidency then : ask who he is t trusty aid of cannon e helps make rules for squelch l ing the minority and serves â–º chiefs blindly i by samuel g blythe r t f you should see _. man with a red , [ and round face a square-topped â–º * hat a long english walking coat â–º a green vest and funuy little rhomboid f whiskers beneath his ears that would r be jim sherman whom the republican l party in convention assembled nomi t nated for vice president yesterday v the honorable jim la the pride of l utlca n y he is the luckiest man in Â£ the world lucius littauer his close Â£ friend and former associate in pfsa j f gress coming from gloversville which f is just abaft of utica started a boom t for jim for vice prtsiilent thinking r to give jim some need d prominence l so the sherman friends could go home r and run him for governor of new york this fall they were press agenting jim a bit giving him a reputation so to speak so they could boom him in september as the successor of the high ly beloved hughes takes orders and obeys them sherman's only prototpye is the man Â» who fell into the hamburg canal in 1 buffalo the reekingest place in its day : in all the country and came up with a gold watch at one wild bound he â–º has become the cynosure of all eyes the partner of william howard Taft for weal or for woe and instead of be ing pent up in utica he is unpent with his picture in all the papers and noth ' ing to do prospectively except read j the papers closely every morning lo t see if the president is sick james you know is trusty jim all the boys in the house of repre , sentatives are for him because he is i for all the boys james is what you ! might call a safe and sane easy-driv i ing thoroughly house-broken states man he is not much on the initiative l but if you initiate for him give him 1 his orders he will carry them out or ' break a trace jim is not captain of the ship he is the navigator tell him where to â– go and he will go there he will ask no questions he will brook no inter ' ference orders are orders to him he will never anticipate he will â– never suggest but if you give him 1 the chart he will sail to the point in ' dicated by the cross in red ink or he , will go down in the attempt â– in congress eighteen years sherman has been in congress for about eighteen years he has pro gressed in that time to the chairman ship of the committee ou indian af fairs and to the no 3 place on the committee on rules when general charles henry grosvenor of ohio was compelled to relinquish his place on the committee ou rules not because he wanted to but because an unfeel ing proletariat wouldn't let him go back to congress speaker cannon chose sherman to fill grosvenor's place the three members of the com mittee on rules who do things are the speaker john dalzell and sherman there are two democrats but they are excess baggage dalzell is the man who reports the outrages to be per petrated on the defenseless minority after said outrages are reported it is sherman who stands up in the house and tells the republicans how needful it is for them to follow the rules committee while condol hon 4th page th column continued on 2d page 2d column i l_y ii ___â– ! _____ m â€” _^__ j^r~n i ii weather indications m w fvm Chicago and vicinity con Â§?* w v-w tinued warm and generally fair l j h v weather saturday and sunday fresh f'jj 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Chicago examiner vol vi no 156 a m saturday june 20 1908 16 pages price one cent neuvered by carrier 30 cents per monti cooley would quit but resignation is re turned i revelation comes as ida m tarbell prepares to muck rake school board busse's hand in fight superintendent forced out after refusing to trans fer teachers chicago's board of education is to be muck-raked by ida m tarbell coincident with this news comes the hardly less startling declaration from president otto c bchneidcr of the board of education that edwin g cooiey re signed as superintendent of chicago's pub lic schools before leaving for europe two months ago unless mr cooiey has changed his mind since his departure the resignation still holds good though it has not been accepted and as a consequence the Chicago public schools are without an official head it is said that the lesigna tlon was practically forced from cooiey by mayor busse's secretary b j mul aney in a stormy interview at which the former refused to sign . a big batch of transfers for teachers the muck-raking by miss tarbell is to be done with a special view to uncovering the inside works of the administrative and executive system which scbool trustee guerln and other critics of the schneider cool y regime declare has been turned into a monster poliitical machine for the oppression of teach ers and the denial to the pupils of their right to be free from overcrowding and from other unhealthy conditions in class rooms the material for the muck raking articles is now being gathered in Chicago by miss tarbell she has held confereuces with miss margaret haley and miss catherine goggin of the teachers federation and is to have further conferences with them from the moment of her arrival here miss tarbell has been busily at work with her little old rake as she calls her note book peneil her presence had been kept a secret but it was revealed esterday admits miss tarbell is here i will admit that miss tarbell is here that i have met her and that she held a three-hours conference to-day with a rep resentative of the Chicago teachers said miss haley she is occupied i under stand in making an investigation of the fearful and mysterious works of the system or political machine or whatever it should be called by which the rank and hie of | chicago's school teachers are denied ad 1 vancemeut to higher pay and more freedom of professional initiative and by which also the school children of Chicago are de prived of their natural rights the admission by mr schneider list night that mr cooiey had tendered his resignation at last confirms the persistent rumor that mr cooiey contemplates a severance of his connection with the public schools of which he has been superintend it for the last eight years whether mr cooiey will return to chi cago as head of the public schools is the droblem in the case his re-election mon day night at a stormy meeting of rhe school board may have changed the s't aation cooiey and mayor busse are said have reached the parting stage forced to release secret it was in reply to insistent demands for i definite statement as to the reported in ______ of cooiey to quit that president schneider released his secret is it true that mr cooiey will resign v-icii he gets back to Chicago was asked with desperate vehemence president schneider replied let me tell you a secret mr cooiey did resign just before he went away but i did not accept the resignation i sent it back to him i understood that the reason he resigned was because he was not sure he would recover his health suf ficiently to enable him to resume his da lies has he withdrawn the resignation do you expect him back as school superintend ent i hope so xow that's all i will say according to the story of the inside his tory of the resignation mr cooiey has known for some time that he is persona non grata with the ruliug powers at the city hall soon before the date when he requested sick leave mr cooiey so the story runs was visited in his office by a i i busse emissary said to be none other than i | ihe mayor's private secretary bernard j â– mulluney a small ikt of requests for â– transfers-just forty of them was pre â– seated by mullaney for the o k of the isj school superintendent mr cooiey became h very angry and let it be known that he â– was he resented the attempt to interfere Â£.[ with the czar-like sway that he had been m accustomed to exercise over the destiuies the teachers jbbi ve a wordy battle â– ''-' tr.ese papers l am instructed to your signature said mullaney got a heated refusal ten minutes the atmosphere had a m|j then the enraged emissary e resignation mr cooiey '' nfterno.m b - the effect on the schools if bs__bb 11,si ltl0 " should become ef l ln trustee raymond robins â– i be the rery best thing that h chaos not harmony has rc b â€” long period of or mis plunges to death in view of thousands of merry makers - patrick murphy overcome by heat on royal gorge 50 foot scaffold at river view â– weather fatal to six : list of prostrations for day is large little relief promised i overcome by the heat while at work on a platform fifty feet from the ground : patrick murphy an oiler olunged to his i death in full view of thousands of amuse ment seekers at riverview park last night while the park was crowded and while gay parties were being whirled over the i royal gorge railway murphy who i had ascended the platform to oil some i pulleys was seen to throw bis hands to i his head and reel i the man grabbed wildly at the scaffold and the next instant plunged forward the body described a somersault in the air struck against one part of the struc ture bounded off and landed head fore most on the ground murphy's neck was broken in the fall he was dead when picked up the plunge of the unfortunate workman 1 caused no outcry there was no excite i ment the laughter went on the royal gorge continued lo haul the laughing i crowds up the inclines and down the i dips murphy's body was picked up by some park attendants had complained of heat the man who was about thirty five years old had been complaining of a head ache and of the heat all day the death of murphy is the second that ' has taken place ou the royal gorge ' road at riverview within a week last sunday august kuschask either leaped or fell from one of the cars going at a high rate of speed and was instantly killed murphy was a member of tire hod car riers uuiou his place of business is not known the body was removed to tehach's undertaking rooms 47 roscoe boulevard tlie heat in Chicago yesterday was re sponsible for a number of deaths and a larger number of prostrations the list is as follows the dead muivjpk patkick employed at riv erview park address unknown ; over come by heat and fell from scaffold of soyal gorge railway fifty feet killed instantly p ox mrs mary sisrty-si years old 42 morgan place died of apoplexy superinduced hy heat ! yotj-tg w h seventy years old one of the oldest telegraphers in the united states overcome in the coli seum during the session of the na tional convention on thursday died at the home of his son 995 flournoy street tadokski krs dorothy seventy eight years old 950 north lincoln street found dead in bed heart dis ease aggravated hy the heat ea3vey baby one month old 1439 west sixty-first street summer com plaint mazniak ig-hatz forty-one years old 8836 escanaba avenue overcome by heat thursday died at south chi cago hospital yesterday the prostrated peterson irene fifteen years old 443 west huron street overcome on street county hospital condition serious bttkos nellie eighteen years old employed by swift & company at the stock yards overcome on street taken home condition not serious olson julia thirteen years old 14d west huron street overcome on street taken home condition not serious hammatt eugene seventy four veais old van buren and sherman streets overcome on street emergency hospital condition serious ' o'connor james twenty-one years old ' 1515 diverse boulevard overcome on street st bernard's hospital condition i not serious germain george forty-five veurs old ' ml jackson boulevard overcome in kit 1 chen of john l thompson restaurant county hospital condition serious van zen'tz ella thirty four years old ticket seller on the elevated at itnudolp i street and fifth avenue overcome at < work taken to her home 873 north ilai , sted street condition not seriousv no immediate relief from the hot wave ( is promised by the weather man the < mercury in Chicago to-day may go even i higher than yesterday when at 3 o'clock 88 degrees was recorded a higli west ' wind that reached a velocity of forty ' two miles an hour at noon was the onlv 1 thin that tempered the heat keeping the humidity down to normal go easy jim c & n.w rail road accused in court of mild bribery arguments for new trial of big condemnation suits are begun accusations of a mild species of bribery against the Chicago & north western railroad company and direct charges that the company's lawyers had tried to influence the verdict of the jury iu the condemnation suit recently tried were made by the attorneys for some of the property owners in judge chytraus court yesterday the motion for a new trial in the case which involved 1,000.000 worth of property on the site of the pro posed new if_o,ooo.oc-i statiou for the com pany was being heard the property owners who are asking for a new trial base their demands on the grounds that they were awarded unfair prices for their holdings i ask wi.liam kies to explain how it was that he urged that the railway com pany be allowed to pay the jurors iu the case 3 a day in addition to their regular fee of 2 a day said attorney w j doyle for the property owners i demand an explanation why this 3 per day additional was allowed the jurors i say in open court that it was a species of bribery a mild species perhaps but a species of bribery nevertheless i want an explana tion the original trial lasted six months the aggregate amount of awards made by the jury was over 750,000 since the trial of the suit president hughitt of the railway company has come to the couclusiou that some of the awards were not adequate he is now engaged in settling anew with some of the property holders regardless of the court award a number ot settle ments at prices satisfactory to the owners lime been made others are in course of settlement yesterday's proceedings were brought by property owners who have not been approached by hughitt michael hiinegaii was the foreman of the jury he is the man who is charged with having used his influence to secure favor able awards for the company attorney j j thompson also represent ing property holders made direct accusa tions against the road's lawyers the Chicago & northwestern employed an army of detectives to investigate each venireman called and when he was called to the jury box they knew whether he was the one they wanted said thompson the defendants did not know this ami when ilanegan answered the questions of the defendants attorneys satisfactorily he was accepted hanegan dominated the jury tn the in terests of tlie railroad he told certain of ihe jurors that they would get good obs if they decided in favor of the corporation and then again when the jurors were granted the extra pay t understand thev were not to be told it was given - them by the railroad this your honor unintention ally told theiu ' woman wins will contest from her father charges parent as executor wasted estate bequeathed by her mother still fighting to recover an estate which she says her father frittered away ille gally in his capacity as executor mrs clare irene laing malcolm of ana arbor mich obtained a judgment here yesterday against herbert a streeter of kvanston judge piuckney instructed the jury o return a verdict lu favor of mrs malcolm streeter is seventy-four years old his sole connection with the affair consisted of his having been one of the bondsmen for colonel cuthbert w laing the plaintiff father colouel laing is now in toledo unto and it was stated in court that he had refused to come to Chicago to testily in streeter's behalf daughter had him arrested the fact is colonel laing has a whole some respect for his warlike daughter three years ago she had hltu arrested at his office in uearborn street on a cuarge of taking 4y,tvi from her the case was settled out of court mrs malcolm was born in 1870 and her mother who was very wealthy died when the girl was eighteen uioutus old alia laing had entered into an ante-nuptial agreement with the colonel in which he waived all claim to her estate she left it all to her daughter but the colonel was appointed executor among the assets bequeathed to the in fant were a three-eignths interest in the trade building whicu colouel laing sold tor fom.ooo in 18bs and the property at j.l-2'j washington street which he sold lu isiil to marshall field & co for their annex building the price being 01,000 before he could take charge of this moiie colonel laing had to give a bond as executor streeter with w j and j h mcneill assumed the responsibility previously a bond on the real estate had been given by vincent ('. price o the price kakiug powder company and cornier united states senator william k mason a year ago mrs malcolm recovered a judgment of 100,000 against price leave streeter to fight alone by the time mrs malcolm had collected that and started cut to hunt for the other three bondsu.cn the mcneills had left the jurisdiction of the court and streeter was left to light the battle alone as in the previous case against pn:e u was brought out that mrs malcolm at the time of attaining her majority id again prior to her marriage had signed a release forgiving her father for what ever mismanagement there had been in her estate but the answer was that the re leases had been obtained under duress also that colonel laing had violated toe law when he useu his daughter's money to speculate in the kllzsimtnon subdivision real estate deal without obtaining the pel-mission of the court the court held that under the law his bondsmen were responsible for his actions and that they must return to the daughr-.-r 1 whatever her father took away from her * i h gompers says unions will fight g o p labor plank plan appeal to democrats president a f of l declares sherman act was intended to apply only to property rights 6(1 want to say to you that we i the american federation of * labor are not satisfied with the anti-injunction plank in the re publican platform this statement was made last night by samuel gompers president of the american federation of labor to a reporter of the examiner at the kaiser ! hof hotel i give you my views in full in an editorial 1 have written for the july number of the american federationist there can be no mistake as to my views if you will read that labor he continued cannot be satisfied with any makeshift half way promises that mean nothing what i say in that editorial are my views and the views of labor organiza tions as they are enunciated by me as to this republican platform i be lieve that all organized labor agrees with these views and as i have made them they will stand as coming from me is that plain enough i think it is and ought to satisfy every one as to my position and that of our organiza tion on the republican anti-injunction planlt want anti-trust law amended the american federationist is the of ficial organ of the american federation of labor the editorial statement is as follows under the decision of the united states supreme court the labor organiza tions of the country are now regarded as trusts combinations and conspiracies in restraint of trade they _ are subject to i the provisions of the sherman anti-trust i law a law never intended to apply to or igantzations of men and women who have nothing to sell hut their power to labor and yet these voluntary associations and their members may be subject to suits in volving threefold damages fines to , the sum of o,000 or imprisonment for one year or both such fine and imprisonment ' at the discretion of the court ] labor asked congress for an amend ment to the auti trust law that shall ac ' cord the toilers the right to organize to , unitedly protect their personal freedom i the party in power responsible for legisla tion or its failure point-blank refused to 1 grant the relief desired or any relief at â– all the abuse of the beneficent writ of in junction was presented dot only to past ' congresses but to the consideration of the 1 one just adjourned labor did not and , does not ask for special privileges nor as some mischievously and untruthfully assert does it ask or expect to become a privileged class of wrougdoers in labor's bill on injunctions we would re-establish the fundamental principles upon which the equity power of the courts is based intended to affect property rights the writ of injunction was intended to be exercised for the protection of property rights and property rights only it was never intended to either protect or curtail personal rights personal freedom labor insists and has the right to de mand that workmen shall have the full quarautee of equality before the law to be regarded and treated as every other citizen of our common country and to have equally the guarantees of constitutional statutory and natural rights applied to all not one process of law to one class of citizeus and another wholly unwarrant able process to workmeu and not even to workmen unless they are engaged in a dis pute with their employers the majority leader on the floor of the house mr payne of new york on may 1 11108 declared " we are doing this business we are leg islating we are responsible for what we do and we are responsible for what we do not do and we propose to assume the re sponsibility for it from beginning to end representative dalzell of pennsylvania a member of the committee on rules an other republican leader ou april 3 iu.b said in the house " i think we will be able to demonstrate from this time out not only that the minor ity shall not enact legislation but that the legislation of the majority shall be such as the majority desires to pass iu its own way and in its ovvu time labor's just demands spurned the authorized representatives of the wage-earners of the country presented a protest to congress against the wrongs which they have to endure asking some of naming of sherman a chance shot i boomed at Chicago merely to t advertise him as possible h successor of hughes stranger to delegates Â£ they obediently nominate him . â–º for vice presidency then : ask who he is t trusty aid of cannon e helps make rules for squelch l ing the minority and serves â–º chiefs blindly i by samuel g blythe r t f you should see _. man with a red , [ and round face a square-topped â–º * hat a long english walking coat â–º a green vest and funuy little rhomboid f whiskers beneath his ears that would r be jim sherman whom the republican l party in convention assembled nomi t nated for vice president yesterday v the honorable jim la the pride of l utlca n y he is the luckiest man in Â£ the world lucius littauer his close Â£ friend and former associate in pfsa j f gress coming from gloversville which f is just abaft of utica started a boom t for jim for vice prtsiilent thinking r to give jim some need d prominence l so the sherman friends could go home r and run him for governor of new york this fall they were press agenting jim a bit giving him a reputation so to speak so they could boom him in september as the successor of the high ly beloved hughes takes orders and obeys them sherman's only prototpye is the man Â» who fell into the hamburg canal in 1 buffalo the reekingest place in its day : in all the country and came up with a gold watch at one wild bound he â–º has become the cynosure of all eyes the partner of william howard Taft for weal or for woe and instead of be ing pent up in utica he is unpent with his picture in all the papers and noth ' ing to do prospectively except read j the papers closely every morning lo t see if the president is sick james you know is trusty jim all the boys in the house of repre , sentatives are for him because he is i for all the boys james is what you ! might call a safe and sane easy-driv i ing thoroughly house-broken states man he is not much on the initiative l but if you initiate for him give him 1 his orders he will carry them out or ' break a trace jim is not captain of the ship he is the navigator tell him where to â– go and he will go there he will ask no questions he will brook no inter ' ference orders are orders to him he will never anticipate he will â– never suggest but if you give him 1 the chart he will sail to the point in ' dicated by the cross in red ink or he , will go down in the attempt â– in congress eighteen years sherman has been in congress for about eighteen years he has pro gressed in that time to the chairman ship of the committee ou indian af fairs and to the no 3 place on the committee on rules when general charles henry grosvenor of ohio was compelled to relinquish his place on the committee ou rules not because he wanted to but because an unfeel ing proletariat wouldn't let him go back to congress speaker cannon chose sherman to fill grosvenor's place the three members of the com mittee on rules who do things are the speaker john dalzell and sherman there are two democrats but they are excess baggage dalzell is the man who reports the outrages to be per petrated on the defenseless minority after said outrages are reported it is sherman who stands up in the house and tells the republicans how needful it is for them to follow the rules committee while condol hon 4th page th column continued on 2d page 2d column i l_y ii ___â– ! _____ m â€” _^__ j^r~n i ii weather indications m w fvm Chicago and vicinity con Â§?* w v-w tinued warm and generally fair l j h v weather saturday and sunday fresh f'jj 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